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There were also questions asked regarding the fitness of Ben White, Christian Norgaard, Jurrien Timber and Gabriel Jesus.<\/p>\n
\u201cChristian won’t be in the squad,\u201d Mikel said. \u201cWith Ben, let’s see how he reacts and what we decide. Christian will be out for another week or so.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo on Jurrien, we have to manage his load. Obviously he\u2019s been out for a long time again and he comes from a long term injury.\u00a0We had a long week, we have to manage the load on that, so we have decided to take a little bit of training down, especially that day in the open session.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cGabi is doing super well. I think he looks in a really good place, obviously it\u2019s a massive injury and we need to come from that in a really strong way, but certainly he\u2019s in the right place and with very strong strides I think.\u201d<\/p>\n
There are no injury concerns surrounding Viktor Gyokeres, but Mikel was asked if it was always the plan for our new forward to just play an hour on his debut last weekend.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, it depended on how the game developed,\u201d he explained. \u201cEvery game brings different challenges, opportunities. I think the game was very demanding physically, became really, really open for different reasons and we decided, that at that moment, he needed to come off and we had Kai on the bench to come and change the game.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe’s very, very enthusiastic. He trained really well this week, again. He\u2019s had another week under his belt and he looked in a really good place.\u201d<\/p>\n
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